Y Combinator
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Y Combinator is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm founded in 2005. It funds and supports early-stage startups through its accelerator program, helping founders develop companies and connect with investors; alumni include Airbnb, Coinbase, Dropbox, Reddit, and Stripe.
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Mentions of Y Combinator per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, business & startups.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 19 | 0.24‰ | 1 |
| Aug 27 | 0.28‰ | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 0.21‰ | 1 |
| Sep 17 | 0.76‰ | 3 |
| Sep 18 | 1.13‰ | 2 |
| Sep 19 | 1.41‰ | 2 |
| Sep 23 | 1.69‰ | 3 |
| Sep 24 | 1.40‰ | 1 |
| Sep 25 | 1.21‰ | 1 |
| Sep 28 | 1.01‰ | 1 |
| Sep 30 | 0.67‰ | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 0.55‰ | 2 |
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Y Combinator appears in startup funding, founder paths, and AI-risk debates
On This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis discussed Y Combinator as a destination for founders and contrasted it with Founder University, while also questioning its deal for repeat founders.[1][2][3]
Y Combinator is described as part of startup infrastructure: Jason Robbins credited it with helping people meet co-founders, and Marty Kausas recalled Paul Graham’s founder office hours.[4][5]
On YAP, Jacqueline Samira said applying to Y Combinator determined that her company would pursue venture funding, with fundraising as its main benefit.[6]
On Moonshots, Vlad Tenev said Robinhood partnered with Y Combinator to give retail investors access to seed- and Series-A-stage companies.[7]
The Diary Of A CEO used Gary Tan’s Y Combinator leadership to frame an argument about prioritizing current AI harms over future extinction risks, while Moonshots discussed Y Combinator background in evaluating an OpenAI CEO.[8][9][10]
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- 1.This Week in Startups · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Jason Calacanis · Oct 5 · Listen at 27:39 ↗
“and then they punch out at 5:29, and they're at the elevator banks. And they're not the person who's going to steal your idea from you. The person who steals your idea from you is some, you know, 2 kids in India, as we just saw on a previou”
- 2.This Week in Startups · A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342Jason Calacanis · Sep 25 · Listen at 26:51 ↗
“So, uh, let's do some startup questions here. Why, why go back to Y Combinator if you're like a 3rd or 4th startup and give them that incredible 7% for $100K deal? Uh, or do you like, I've heard that they'll negotiate special deals with alu”
- 3.This Week in Startups · VCs Would Bet on Open-Source AI Over OpenAI and Anthropic | E2341Jason Calacanis · Sep 23 · Listen at 1:25:44 ↗
“Founder University is a 12-week course just helping you get your product finished to market. We invest in some of the graduates, and one of them was TaxGPT. They went on to our accelerator. We invested, then we invested, then they got into”
- 4.How I Invest with David Weisburd · E438: Will Robbins on Elon Musk, AI & the Future of Silicon ValleyJason Robbins · Oct 5 · Listen at 20:01 ↗
“We were the deepest and most trusted relationship. And so, The other thing that changed over these years is that when we got started and call it 2017-ish, there really wasn't too much infrastructure for these people to go meet their co-foun”
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